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Svyatogorsky Assumption Zymne Stauropean Convent
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Svyatogorsky Assumption Zymne Stauropean Convent

Zymne, Monastyrska Street , 56

About

Svyatogorsky Assumption Zymna Stauropean Monastery is an ancient Ukrainian monastery of monks of the Eastern rite, located in the village. Winter (Vladimir-Volyn district, Volyn region). Earlier - male, first Orthodox, later Union; now - female, is in use by the UOC.

It is one of the oldest in Ukraine. Kyiv's Grand Duke Volodymyr established a diocese in the city of Volodymyr named after him. It is believed that the Grand Duke founded a monastery in 992-993 in the village of Winter, which was then a suburb of Vladimir. The shrine is probably much older than is officially believed.

The first reliable information about the existence of the monastery is given in the "Paterik of Kyiv-Pechersk" about the circumstances of the death in 1062 of the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery of St. Barlaam (he died in Zimna Monastery, returning from Constantinople to Kyiv).

The monastery became famous for the miracles of the miraculous image and the holy life of the Winter monks.

The first saints of Volyn, Stephen (1091-1094) and Amphilochius (1105-1121), who were bishops here, lived in the Zymna Monastery. He visited the Zimne Monastery and Prep. Nestor is a chronicler, then a haircut of Bishop Stephen, who in 1097 was in Vladimir "watching the school council and the decision of the teacher."

At one time here was Abbot Nifont, eventually Bishop of Novgorod, the successor to the chronicle of Prep. Nestor from 1116 to 1157.

In the middle of the XV century. Prince Fedor Chortorysky built a brick monastery-fortress on the site of a cave and wooden monastery.

The monastery joined the union with the RCC in 1682.